In 2016, we introduced the FACEIT Anti-Cheat with the aim of tackling the rampant issue of cheating in CS:GO matches on our platform, which was the primary concern for our users at the time.
Since its inception, it successfully turned FACEIT into a bastion against cheating: providing the CS:GO community with a place where the probability of running into cheaters is the lowest. The progress was groundbreaking, as cheating dramatically dropped from being the number 1 concern, voted by 70% of our players in 2016, to the 8th issue on the platform, voted by only 5% of our players in 2022.
Since Counter-Strike 2’s release, however, cheaters have pushed ever harder to compromise the game’s integrity, relying more and more often on DMA cards, private cheat providers, and custom hardware to try to circumvent Anti-cheats. This makes it harder for us to target, catch, and eventually ban these cheaters, and while never impossible, cheaters can then ruin more matches than we would like.
To resolve this issue, as of November 2025, we have made Windows 11 and its associated security features such as Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 mandatory for all players. Windows 10 had now become discontinued, and despite a minority of our players still being on Windows 10, a large percentage of cheaters were using its security vulnerabilities and loopholes to stay undetected for longer. By shutting down this loophole, we are significantly cracking down on cheating once again, preventing malicious actors from loading their cheats at all, instead of having to track them down.
Today, millions of our players have installed FACEIT Anti-cheat, and hundreds of thousands of daily users continue to place their trust in it. They play their matches with peace of mind, confident that when an opponent executes a great play against them, it's not due to cheating, as the match is safeguarded by our Anti-Cheat.